Hill, Carson send health care memo to Daniels

Daniels said Hoosiers enrolled in the state plan would be picked up by Medicaid through the new federal health care overhaul. But in a memo addressed to U.S. Rep. Baron Hill, CMS Director Cynthia Mann stated, "Indiana is in no way required to terminate its Healthy Indiana Plan," which is approved through Dec. 31, 2012. Daniels, a Republican who has been outspoken in his criticism of the federal health care plan, stated in a March news release that the federal rules would force the 45,000 families covered by HIP to take Medicaid